If You Can't Beat 'Em

Watching the Right try and engage the Internet generation has been interesting to say the least. First, they complained Wikipedia had a liberal bias, so they went and started Conservapedia. Now apparently the coolest site on the Internet, YouTube, has also been overrun with libs. So they've created Qube, a conservative video site. I'm nowhere near 100% on what the purpose of either site is.

Both YouTube and Wikipedia invite contributions from literally everyone. Don't be an idiot and don't go spewing garbage, and everything will probably work out alright. But the biggest exports of early-21st century conservative movement are garbage and idiots. So rather than engage folks in the mainstream, they have to close their eyes and plug their ears and go off into a corner and talk amongst themselves.

Limbaugh and Hannity will be spending the next 18 months telling you how beholden the Dems are to Kos and MoveOn.org. While both have their flaws, neither has much of a problem engaging the mainstream. That conservatives cannot effectively use the tools of the 21st century mainstream does not bode well. It will be interesting to watch Qube and see what becomes of it.